Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1857
Covington Drawbridge Company v. Shepherd - 61 U.S. 227 (1857) U.S. Supreme Court Covington Drawbridge Company v. Shepherd, 61 U.S. 20 How. 227 227 (1857) Covington Drawbridge Company v. Shepherd 61 U.S. (20 How.) 227 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA Syllabus An averment in pleading that the Covington Drawbridge Company were citizens of Indiana was sufficient to give jurisdiction to the circuit court of the United States, because the company was incorporated by a public statute of the state which the court was bound judicially to notice. The former decisions of this Court upon this subject examined. Shepherd and the other defendants in error, styling themselves citizens of Ohio, brought an action of trespass on the case against the Covington Drawbridge, Company, citizens of the State of Indiana, for injuries sustained by a steamboat belonging to the plaintiffs, in consequence of negligence in attending to the draw. The defendants ple...
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